Poll: Obama hurts path to citizenship approval

2/12/13 7:41 AM EST

A poll out Tuesday found that fewer people support a President Barack Obama-backed pathway to citizenship plan for illegal immigrants than one that doesn’t have his name attached to it.

Seven in 10 Americans support a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants — but when Washington Post and Capital Insight pollsters asked the same question with Obama’s name linked to it, support dropped to just 59 percent.

The poll was between Jan. 31 through Feb. 10. The Washington Post didn’t list a margin of error.